Swee Waxbill © flickr.com

Thought to form a superspecies with Coccopygia bocagei and Yellow-bellied Waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) and often treated as conspecific, but differ morphologically and in behaviour.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• melanotis (Temminck, 1823)   -  South-central Zimbabwe and south-western Mozambique to southern South Africa.
• bocagei (Shelley, 1903)   -  Angola. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Angola Waxbill (Coccopygia bocagei).

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